Fire Walking - An Act of Faith
How is it that fire walkers are able
to walk across red hot coals
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The story of Missy, a
reluctant firewalker
I take people on fire walks several times each year. The results speak
for themselves. At one of these fire walks that I led, my daughter and
some friends were present. Among them was a young lady by the name of
Missy.
Missy was about to have a powerful experience regarding faith. At the
beginning of the fire walk, Missy and another lady announced that they
were there for the seminar only, and had no intentions of walking on
the red hot coals.
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Oneness
with the fire
As fate would have it, these two women wound up standing next to each
other at the fire. Drums were pounding and the atmosphere was electric.
I watched these two ladies as they stood there since nearly everyone
else had fire walked, including my daughter. Then as though guided, the
two women held hands without speaking, and both walked slowly over the
fire.
It was one of those electric moments that everyone seemed to notice.
Everyone burst into cheer and jubilation. They had achieved oneness
with the fire, and with each other.
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A
loss of focus
Then Missy found my daughter, and exclaimed, "Let's be cool, and walk
across together." Without realizing it, she'd changed her rationale for
walking, and this set off a chain of events. Missy walked again, but
this time she sustained several blisters.
Missy and I sat together and began to look at her life. She soon
realized that she was doing things to be cool, instead of with
intuition, from her heart. As a result, metaphorically she was burned
every time.
She saw how she would date a boy because he was handsome, or in the
spotlight in sports. And when it became painfully obvious to both, that
there was a conflict of energy, the conflict would manifest itself in
painful separation, akin to a spiritual burn. |
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A step towards self-healing
As we found more and more of these circumstances in Missy's life, with
her family, and friends, her blisters and the pain subsided. By
morning, they were almost completely gone.
She had performed a kind of 'self-healing' by her realization of her
motivations in life, and her willingness to address them and change.
 
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